Gay By Choice? The Science of Sexual Identity

Mother Jones ^ | August 27, 2007 | Gary Greenberg

[Lorianne]

when he leaves his tidy apartment in an ocean-side city somewhere in America, Aaron turns on the radio to a light rock station. "For the cat," he explains, "so she won't get lonely." He's short and balding and dressed mostly in black, and right before I turn on the recorder, he asks me for the dozenth time to guarantee that I won't reveal his name or anything else that might identify him. "I don't want to be a target for gay activists," he says as we head out into the misty day. "Harassment like that I just don't need."

Aaron sets a much brisker pace down the boardwalk than you would expect of a doughy 51-year-old, and once convinced I'll respect his anonymity, he turns out to be voluble. Over the crash of the waves, he spares no details as he describes how much he hated the fact that he was gay, how the last thing in the world he wanted to do was act on his desire to have sex with another man. "I'm going to be perfectly blatant about it," he says. "I'm not going to have anal intercourse or give or receive any BJs either, okay?" He managed to maintain his celibacy through college and into adulthood. But when, in the late 1980s, he found himself so "insanely jealous" of his roommate's girlfriend that he had to move out, he knew the time had come to do something. One of the few people who knew that Aaron was gay showed him an article in Newsweek about a group offering "reparative therapy"—psychological treatment for people who want to become "ex-gay."

[jim70340]

If you read the book by “B F Skinner” about behavior modification you can understand that “Gay” is a learned behavior.

I could use “Skinner” technique and prove it.

Give me 5 kids to raise Ill Make a Jet Pilot, marine, Fireman and 2 Gays, you pick who’s gay.

Thats what Skinner proved.

Jim Smith

[Dilbert San Diego]

This reasoning reminds me a bit of what’s happening with global warming. Those who oppose the agenda being pushed are being marginalized. I would love to see unbiased scientific research on various subjects. But some have a vested interest in certain conclusions.

[nmh]

“It turns out that I didn’t have the faintest idea what love was,” he says. That’s not all he didn’t know. He also didn’t know that his same-sex attraction, far from being inborn and inescapable, was a thirst for the love that he had not received from his father, a cold and distant man prone to angry outbursts, coupled with a fear of women kindled by his intrusive and overbearing mother, all of which added up to a man who wanted to have sex with other men just so he could get some male attention. He didn’t understand any of this, he tells me, until he found a reparative therapist whom he consulted by phone for nearly 10 years, attended weekend workshops, and learned how to “be a man.”

Now a LIBERAL and IDIOTS would rather have this guy be TORMENTED and MISERALE than have a life that allowed him healthy love and contentment. LIBERALS are EVIL demented people.

[VxH]

[you can believe your gay]

That's  the crux of it.  There's an old RUSH song that says: "What you believe is what you are."

Perception manifests a physiological response.  If I believe the shadow on the wall is a predatory animal, my body prepares for fight-or-flight  and an MRI will show the same physiological brain state as if the shadow were a real threat.

Today, the sheeple believe whatever the shadows on TV tell them - including that homosexuality is "Normal". 

Nixon saw this coming over 30 years ago.

NIXON:...I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.

 

EHRLICHMAN: But he never had the influence television had.

The prisoners in Plato's cave never knew the truth...

[VOA]

The Sex Positive agenda (as pushed by Kinsey, Reich, and feminists)

I was suprised at the PBS "The American Experience" documentary
on Kinsey.
He was one sick puppy.

Every time I've heard his name mentioned by academicians, it's been
positive.
I guess they admire his ingenuity for getting grant money for
research...then use it to fund his "gay-curious" adventures and
become a "big name" in society.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

But when, in the late 1980s, he found himself so "insanely jealous" of his roommate's girlfriend that he had to move out...
The Bithtch!!

[punster]

There is a way to settle the argument, as to whether sexual orientation can be changed. Specifically, the method is to use PET scanning to determine the metabolic response to specific human pheromones.

Heterosexual males will show a positive response to the pheromone derived from estrogen (found in female urine). Homosexual men will not.

Women will show a positive response to the pheromone derived from testosterone (found in male sweat). Homosexual males will also show a positive response to the pheromone derived from testosterone.

An explanation of a positive response: The hypothalamus lights up like a Christmas tree, when exposed to the pheromone.

For an explanation: Go Here

As to whether therapy to reverse homosexuality works or not, talk is cheap. The only thing that will settle the argument is a definitive measure of changes in brain biochemistry and metabolism.

[PeterPrinciple]

Studies show that 85% of gay men feel they were born gay...the rest got sucked into it...

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Yes, a survey gets us real close to the truth.

Homo erotica is a behavior, it is NOT a race, gender or religious creed.